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Recent news

• Meet the Artist – Thomas Simaku

  

  On 14 February 2019, an interview, conducted by Frances Wilson, The Cross-Eyed Pianist, concerning UYMP’s House Composer, Thomas Simaku, was published.

• Wonderful reviews for Sadie Harrison’s ‘Owl of the Hazels’ on the CD ‘Bass Clarinet and Friends a miscellany’

  

  Here at UYMP we are very pleased to see that fantastic reviews have been published for Sadie Harrison’s work Owl of the Hazels for bass clarinet and piano. This work is featured on the Divine Art Records CD Bass Clarinet and Friends a miscellany.

• New house composer David Lancaster

  

  UYMP is delighted to announce that David Lancaster is now a house composer. David’s music has been performed, recorded and broadcast nationally. As a young composer he gained a BA from the University of York and was the recipient of numerous awards, and his music was performed by the Kronos Quartet, Lontano, Electric Phoenix, Nancy Ruffer, Alexander Baillie and others. After years of working on music for professional repertory theatre productions, David returned in earnest to composing in 2007.

• Fantastic review for the premiere of Luís Tinoco’s work ‘Fados Geneticamente Modificados’

  

  At the first concert of the Series 20/21 cycle of concerts from the National Centre for Music Broadcasting, Drumming Grupo de Percussão premiered Luís Tinoco’s new work Fados Geneticamente Modificados for percussion quartet. This performance has already received wonderful reviews.

• Portuguese Music Information Centre’s Interview with Luís Tinoco

  

  As part of the Portuguese Music Information Centre’s December 2018 newsletter, an interview with UYMP’s house composer Luís Tinoco was published.